14 TRAVELS through 



the contrary winds always prevented our land- 

 ingj. ^nd having met no vefTel on our pafTage, wc 

 were during hay days reduced to extreme mife- 

 ry, liaving no more than three ounces of bifcuit, 

 and half a bottle of water every day *. 



This poor fubfiftence would foon have been 

 confuitiedj if a violent ftorm had not, after num- 

 berlefs dangers, happily brought us to Spain on 

 the ninety-fourth day of our padage, after hav- 

 ing efcaped from perifliing by the waves, the 

 fword, fire, hunger, third, &:c. 



Our firft care on arriving in the port was to 

 thank the Supreme Being by a ^e Beum^ during 

 a general difchargeof our artillery. 



We found the Chevalier de 'Tcrnay here, who 

 commanded the French fquadron, coming from 

 the glorious Newfoundland expedition. This 

 brave officer was furprifed to fee fo many foldiers 

 fent back in our fhip, in time of war, who could 

 be ufeful in Louifmna, Part of them he took in- 

 to his own fhips, to ferve there during the reft 



of 



* We had found in the EngUJh vefTel thirty quarts of bar- 

 ley groats, which were of threat ufe to us ; we boiled them 

 in water with mouldy bifcuit ; and this nnxture made a dinv 

 uhich we found excellent ; fo true it is, that hunger is tl\t- 

 beft fauce. 



